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Monday, May 08, 2006 What an ugly image! Isn't it? I apologize for any turned stomachs or offended sensibilities. But at a time when the news media views anything American as awful and anything else as "needing context," I think it's important to take note of what the American media doesn't really think we need to worry about. The picture is of a torture victim that appeared with a PajamasMedia write-up on the Congo, Darfur and the amazing blindness - both figurative and moral - that the West displays when bad things happen on the Dark Continent. It's a bit long, but this bit on the horror of the Congo is a must-read for those who would claim to be conscious of how the world works. Hint: You may not know much about the Congo, but your cellphone and PlayStation wouldn't work if somebody else didn't. My question: PJMedia ran this photo. But walking by the news stands, I haven't noticed it all over the front pages. And I'm wondering how this was missed by the media that knew we needed to see the Abu Ghraib photos so we could, as citizens, decide what we wanted the government to do about it. As I said at the start, there is a double standard at work here. A double standard designed to squelch American action and promote inaction and indifference. Especially where the alternative, in media eyes, is to expose the extent to which things don't get done unless America and her Anglophone cousines do them and the extent to which the "international community" that so loves the Kerrys and Gores of the world fails to give a flying fig about people whose oppression is real and not of the "I have to live in a country where Bush nominates judges" variety. Look closely at the photo. That is what horror and oppression look like. That is what it looks like in those corners of the world where the U.S. fails to clean house. Remember that the next time you hear about the sainted "international community" and the evils of America. 
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